https://twitter.com/ErinBanco/status/1260558346786136064?s=20
Birxy cat, Birxy cat, I hate you.
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Info must be too sensitive to trust to encrypted communication
This is extremely concerning. If they cave and just let Trump pick whatever numbers suit him then the data will be even less reliable than it already is. The article also mentions how Birx has been pressuring states to change how they report deaths. That explains the death count anomaly in red states like Florida, Georgia and Texas where magically far less of their confirmed cases die.
Also LOL Dr. Birx. What an absolute fraud.
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Like thereâs active reason to disbelieve them, because there is no doubt at all that if you read Trumpâs Twitter feed and believed it all, you would be worse informed about the world. On average the tweets are lies or misrepresentations.
I like data, so why arenât death counts released in a way that allows you to separate out these categories? Knowing how many coronavirus deaths are presumed positive without a confirmed lab result would give us an idea of how behind we are in testing. It would be no different than describing the money supply in terms of M1/M2/M3.
There is nothing wrong with data but taking this adminâs motives at face value seems really dumb. They are obviously trying to suppress the death totals and it has already started in red states. The article also explains that there are no people who died of other causes being labeled Covid because the form itself asks if they died because of Covid, not if they died while positive for Covid. So using Dumb Donnieâs own example if someone fell down the stairs and died while positive with Covid those deaths are already not counted as a Covid death.
UmmâŚPresumed positive used to be patients who tested positive locally but whose tests were not confirmed by the CDC lab. Like this was 2 whole months ago, which may as well be 10 years, but Iâm pretty sure that is still what it means.
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Good data reporting is decidedly NOT the point.
Oh, I donât trust them at all. They seem to want a single number that can be manipulated to be as small as possible. I want maximum data.
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Well thatâs the projectioniest tweet in quite some time.
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Which partâthe market manipulation or the âbarely legalâ?
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Yes.
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Everyone knows the symbol predates Nazis bro.
Definitely a sign Democrats shouldnât run a boring candidate thinking they will win on the basis of being not RâŚoh fuckâŚ
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Katie Hill really shouldnât have resigned.
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Itâs always projection!
Yeah this right here. People generally speaking suck. Some tolerance of people doing regrettable stuff is unavoidable imo. Doesnât mean itâs ok, but being publicly embarrassed is good enough 95% of the time.